Objective: Advocate, model, and teach appropriate legal and ethical digital behaviors.
Reading - Chapter 4: A Constructivist Approach to the NETS.T
A. Model ethical and legal technology practices
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2. After watching the videos, how has your understanding of copyright, fair use agreement, and acceptable use changed? How will this effect your practice as a teacher using material as well as your allowing use from your students? Please tweet your findings. B. Promote safety and health in relation to technology
1. Blocking Software - Investigate your educational location or district. If you are not currently working in a district, find a district to interview and inquire about their policies. What Site Blocking protocols in currently in place. Do you think they are too strict or not strict enough? Tweet your findings. As you search using your school network, see what blocks you find. I know in Trumbull, CT, we have blocks that filter out anything with the word, "Game" in the site. It can be challenging to play academically appropriate material. We do have a protocol in place if we find sites that we would like to use. Our administrators can unblock specific URL addresses.
2. General Internet Safety - Watch the provided videos. You may need to activate a trial account in order to watch them. After watching them, create an engaging poster your could use in your classroom or school to help promote Internet Safety. You could even show the videos to your class and have them create the posters. Snap pictures of your creation and post on your twitter feed. Professor Garfield Child friendly video promoting Internet Safety. You will need to create a Trial Account to explore the available materials. BrainPop Common Sense Review for children about Internet Safety. There is a 10 question quiz to use with children following the video. BrainPop Information Privacy. Learning about SPAM.
3. OSHA evaluation checklist for posture and seating. Take the survey to see if you and the students are meeting the standards set forth by OSHA. OSHA eTool After completing the evaluation, tweet about an area you or your school district should work to improve and why.
C. Provide equitable access to technology for all students
1. Describe your current computer accessibility. Do you have fulltime access to a class set of computers or only a minimal number? Does your community allow "Bring Your Own Technology" to your classroom? Explain how you currently manage your use of technology. Do you use it for most of your instruction or only a small part? What percent of the day are your students allowed the use of technology? Create a spread sheet showing how you currently integrate technology into your day. If you have only a small number of computers in your classroom, how do you promote equality in the time spent on computers?
2. In your spreadsheet, create a column indicating where you could improve your use of technology. It could be more time on technology with your students, it could be integrating learners use their own technology at home to complete research or projects, or it could be more teacher applications to improve student learning. D. Model culturally responsible behaviors involving technology-related communication and collaboration
1. Promoting Safe Use in the classroom Many games and videos with permissions for classroom use. Find a way this site could be helpful in promoting Internet Safety with your students. Tweet your use or uses.
E. Developing a Technology Management Plan
Create a way to monitor a classroom of 25 students with 5 classroom computers. All five computers have internet access, a word processing program, and various math, grammar, and science software applications. How would you make sure all children had adequate use of the technology? You may need investigate with more questions, but what questions would you need to ask?
What if your classroom was only a one computer classroom? How would you vary your instruction to make use of the one computer?
Create a technology management plan for a computer lab of enough computers for each student to have access to a computer for 45 minutes each week. How would you best integrate the technology into your current instruction?
Tweet your ideas to the Twitter feed. Be creative.
Objective: Advocate, model, and teach appropriate legal and ethical digital behaviors.
Reading - Chapter 4: A Constructivist Approach to the NETS.T
A. Model ethical and legal technology practices
2. After watching the videos, how has your understanding of copyright, fair use agreement, and acceptable use changed? How will this effect your practice as a teacher using material as well as your allowing use from your students? Please tweet your findings.
B. Promote safety and health in relation to technology
1. Blocking Software - Investigate your educational location or district. If you are not currently working in a district, find a district to interview and inquire about their policies. What Site Blocking protocols in currently in place. Do you think they are too strict or not strict enough? Tweet your findings. As you search using your school network, see what blocks you find. I know in Trumbull, CT, we have blocks that filter out anything with the word, "Game" in the site. It can be challenging to play academically appropriate material. We do have a protocol in place if we find sites that we would like to use. Our administrators can unblock specific URL addresses.
2. General Internet Safety - Watch the provided videos. You may need to activate a trial account in order to watch them. After watching them, create an engaging poster your could use in your classroom or school to help promote Internet Safety. You could even show the videos to your class and have them create the posters. Snap pictures of your creation and post on your twitter feed.
Professor Garfield Child friendly video promoting Internet Safety. You will need to create a Trial Account to explore the available materials.
BrainPop Common Sense Review for children about Internet Safety. There is a 10 question quiz to use with children following the video.
BrainPop Information Privacy. Learning about SPAM.
3. OSHA evaluation checklist for posture and seating. Take the survey to see if you and the students are meeting the standards set forth by OSHA.
OSHA eTool After completing the evaluation, tweet about an area you or your school district should work to improve and why.
C. Provide equitable access to technology for all students
1. Describe your current computer accessibility. Do you have fulltime access to a class set of computers or only a minimal number? Does your community allow "Bring Your Own Technology" to your classroom? Explain how you currently manage your use of technology. Do you use it for most of your instruction or only a small part? What percent of the day are your students allowed the use of technology? Create a spread sheet showing how you currently integrate technology into your day. If you have only a small number of computers in your classroom, how do you promote equality in the time spent on computers?
2. In your spreadsheet, create a column indicating where you could improve your use of technology. It could be more time on technology with your students, it could be integrating learners use their own technology at home to complete research or projects, or it could be more teacher applications to improve student learning.
D. Model culturally responsible behaviors involving technology-related communication and collaboration
1. Promoting Safe Use in the classroom
E. Developing a Technology Management Plan
F. Use Technology to Affirm Diversity
G. Exhibit responsible behavior in social interactions involving technology